Haiku poetry originated in Japanese culture and combines appearance, content, and verbal communication in a compact form. Haikus typically focus on everyday themes like nature or feelings and use simple words and grammar structured in three short lines. Eisenstein found that haikus simulate the visual conflict created by montage cinema techniques. Like how combining hieroglyphs of simple concepts creates new meanings, haikus combine words and images to imply new ideas. This is similar to how montage shots in film combine single depictions into new intellectual contexts and meanings. Haikus can therefore be adapted into visual montages that represent the poems through symbolic photographic or film images.

1. Question # 4 Define “Haiku Poetry”. How does Eisenstein bind this to his cinematographic principle? Use examples of poems and explain how they are similar to montage. Then create visual images that could be used to make a photographic/and/or/film montage of the same poems. Group 1 Andrea, Kyle, Ngozi, Sejin, Nicole, Stefan, Saulo

2. Point One Haiku poetry if from the Japanese culture and Haiku combines appearance, content, and verbal communication in a significant, yet compact form. Haiku poets write about everyday things and many themes include nature, feelings, or experiences. Usually they use simple words and grammar and the most common form for Haiku is three short lines.

3. Point Two In Japanese Poetry or, to be more accurate the Haiku, Eisenstein found a form of literature which essentially simulated in the written word the visual conflict generated by logical montage. The point is that the intimacy of two hieroglyphs of the simplest series is to be regarded not as their sum, but as their product. From separate hieroglyphs has been combined the ideogram. For example, the picture for water and the picture of an eye signify to weep. “On page 29, a dog + a mouth = to bark; a mouth + a child = to scream; a mouth + a bird = to sing; a knife + a heart = sorrow, and so on (Eisenstein 29).” But this is montage.

4. Point Three This is exactly what they do in the cinema, combining shots that are depictive, single in meaning, into intellectual contexts and series. This is a means and method expected in any cinematographic explanation. And, a strong and purified form, the starting point for the intellectual cinema. Haiku is a little more than hieroglyphs transposed into phrases. It’s so much so that all their quality is appraised by their calligraphy, and the method of their resolution completely similar to the structure of the ideogram.

5. Point Four As the ideogram provides a means for the short imprinting of an abstract concept, the same method, when transferred into literary description, it gives rise to an identical laconism of pointed imagery. Laconic means that words are used cautiously; the word is derived from Laconia whose citizens were known for using few words to express themselves.